Storage and reclaiming system



Dec..24, 1929. R. H. BEAUMONT 1,740,722

STORAGE AND RECLAIMING SYSTEM Filed May l. 1926 Arrow/fr.

Patented Dec. 24, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ROBERT H. BEAUMONT,OF RADNOR, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO Bf. H. BEAUMONT COMPANY, OFPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF E'IITNNSYIJ` VAN IA STORAGEAND RECLAIMING SYSTEM Application filed May 1,

The principal object of the present invention is to avoid theexpenditure of excess power and the rapid wear on the return cable dueto its cutting into material and being buried therein. Another object ofthe invention is to scrape material deposited at a point on the marginof the storage area and store it over the area and also to reclaimmaterial from any part of the area and deposit it at the point on themargin of the area. An-

other object of the invention is to provide an improved storage andreclaiming system adaptable to many commercial conditions and economicaland durable in use and ett'ective over substantially all of theavailable storage area.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the followingdescription at the end of which the invention will be claimed. However,reference will be made to the accompanying drawing of which the singleligure is a diagrammatic view illustrative of a storage and reclaimingsystem embodying features of the invention.

In the drawing 1 is a storage area of which the shape or outline is notmaterial. 2 is a drag scraper. 3 is a winding machine. 4 is a frontpost. 5 is a front or pulling cable and it leads from the front post 4to the winding machine 3 and to the scraper 2. 6 is a track arrangedaround the margin of the area 1, or, more accurately, partway around themargin of that area. 7 is a tail block car on the track 6. 8 and 9 aresheaves or sheave equipment located at fixed points around the margin ofthe area 1 or, more accurately, around a portion of the margin of thatarea. 1() is a return cable guided by the tail block car and sheaveequipment from the scraper 2 to the winding machine 3 clear of the frontpost 4 and of the material in the area.

When the tail block car 7 is on the portion of the track 6 between thesheaves 8 and 9, the return cable l() passes from the car 7 around thesheave 9 to the winding machine 3, and when the tail block car 7 is onthe portion of the track as in the drawing the return cable 10 passesaround the sheavesS and 9 as shown. In all cases the return cable 1() iskept out of the material handled and 1926. Serial No. 105,997.

this is important because if the return cable cuts into the material andis buried, there re sults waste of power and rapid wear. 'Ihe front orpulling cable 5 and the portion of the return cable 10 on the scraperside of the tail block car 7, if any, are kept on the surface or" thematerial by the reciprocating action of the scraper.`

By way of further description it may be said that material, for example,coal is reclaimed back to the hopper 11 located in front of the frontpost 4, and from this hopper 11 the coal flows back to the lifting means12 which deliver it into railway cars on the railway line 13 orelsewhere. The same lifting means are available for raising materialfrom the track hopper 14 under a railroad car on the line 13 and forchuting it into an initial pile indicated at 15. The winding machine 3is of course located outside of the area 1 and it may well be spacedbetween the front post 4 and the sheave 9. It is an advantage ot thedescribed construction that the scraper 2 can work all over the storageyard or area whether the storage area be defined by a track 6constituting a radial or other path. It will be obvious to those skilledin the art to which the invention relates that modi'- ications may bemade in details of construction and arrangement and in matters of mereform without departing from the spirit of the invention which is notlimited to such matters or otherwise than as the prior art and theappended claims may require.

I claim:

1. A storage and reclaiming system embodying a storage area, a dragscraper, a winding machine,a front post,a front or pulling cable leadingfrom the front post to the winding machine and to the scraper, a trackarranged around the margin of the area, a tail block car on the track,sheave equipment located at fixed points around the margin of the area,and a return cable guided by the tail block and sheave equipment to thewinding machine and drag scraper clear of the front post and of thematerial in the area.

2. A storage and reclaiming system embodying an area for the storage ofmaterial, a

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Winding machine, a drag scraper, a cable for reciprocating the scraper,a tail block, and means arranged around the margin of the storage areafor guiding the return reach of the cable between the Winding machineand the tail block clear of the material -on said area.

3. A storage reclaiming system including a scraper, a storage area, aWinding machine, a front post `and 'tail block ifor 4 guiding thereciprocation 'of the lscraper 'over 'the area, a front cable passingaround the front post to the winding machine, A'sheave equipmentarranged clear of the margin of thearea and interposed between the'taiiblock and Winding machine, and a return .cablekpassing -from the.Winding machine around the tail Ablock and guided'between thetail'hlockand Winding Nmachine by the v:sheave equipment .clear of the storagearea.

ROBERT .I-I.

